Rupert Everett has revealed he was “fired” from the upcoming season of Emily In Paris, after appearing as an interior designer character in last year’s instalment of the Netflix show.
The actor — known for playing the GBF to Julia Roberts in My Best Friend’s Wedding — will bid farewell to Giorgio Barbieri ahead of Emily Paris’ fifth season, though he claimed the departure was rather blunt on Netflix’s end.
“I was fired,” Everett told Vanity Fair of the unceremonious deportation from Paris.
“I did a scene in the latest season, and they told me, ‘Next year we’ll speak.’”
So eager was Everett to wield a baguette once more that he apparently “waited for them to call me”.
“Ultimately, it never came, and they just fired me,” he said.
While it is a tragic loss for fans of Giorgio’s perpetual nosiness, Everett assured audiences that that’s just showbusiness, baby.
“Show business is always very difficult, from the beginning to the end. When they write the screenplay, they think they want you, but then things change, and they lose your character,” he said.
“I don’t know why.”
As for his reaction to departing Paris, Everett described it as a “tragedy” that left him bedridden.
“For me, it was a tragedy. I was in bed for two weeks because I couldn’t get over it,” he said.
Vanity Fair claimed a source close to the production said Giorgio’s storyline had simply run its course (there’s only so many interiors you can design, I guess), while Netflix declined to comment on Everett’s firing.
He’s not the only one to have said au revoir throughout Emily In Paris’ four-season run, with Camille Razat — who plays Emily’s (Lily Collins) friend-turned-romantic-nemesis Camille — also confirming she’s out ahead of season five.
Chef Gabriel actor Lucas Bravo, meanwhile, is on board for the new season, though he hasn’t seemed particularly chuffed with the idea of returning — if *those* comments are anything to go by.
Whatever the case, Emily will be back for another instalment of beret-wearing antics when Emily In Paris’ fifth season lands on Netflix later this year.
And don’t fret, series creator Darren Star said the show will stick around for as long as Netflix will have him.
Or until they run out of baguettes.
